Book Chanel: The Legend Of An Icon by Assouline

Description

Gabrielle Chanel, known for her uncanny ability to anticipate fashion trends, transformed the style world with her modern take on luxury minimalism. She elevated simple fabrics like jersey and tweed to couture status, creating a sophisticated yet understated silhouette that redefined 20th century fashion. Chanel's vision liberated women from restrictive clothing, aligning with broader societal changes. The fashion house she founded has continued to shape modern fashion, with her successor, Karl Lagerfeld, reinventing the industry by drawing on Chanel's heritage while adding his own innovative twist. Lagerfeld's approach to reviving a legendary brand has become the model for the modern fashion house. Assouline's updated volume, Chanel: The Legend of an Icon, captures this rich history with a selection of one hundred iconic pieces and insightful text by Alexander Fury, illustrating the lasting impact of Chanel through archive and contemporary images.

Details

• 240 pages
• More than 180 illustrations
• in English
• Released in May 2024
• W 25 x L 33 x D 4 cm
• Hardcover
• ISBN: 9781649803443
• 2.5kg

About the Author

Alexander Fury is a fashion journalist, author and critic. He is the fashion reporting director of AnOther magazine and the men's critic for the Financial Times. From 2016 to 2018, he was the first chief fashion correspondent at T: The New York Times Style Magazine, and from 2013 to 2016, he was fashion editor for The Independent, i and The Independent on Sunday newspapers. In 2018, Fury received the honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. His other books include Dior: Catwalk (Thames and Hudson, 2017); Catwalking: photographs by Chris Moore (Laurence King, 2017); Dior by Gianfranco Ferré (Assouline, 2018); Montblanc: Inspire Writing (Assouline, 2021) and Burberry (Assouline, 2023).